Wildlife Sightings

Animals Birds Insects Plants Invasive Plants

Certify your backyard as a Wildlife Habitat Why wetlands are important Help Track Birds with Mass Audubon eBird Mass Audubon Butterfly Atlas Bug Guide Massachusetts List of Endangered Species Washington State Noxious Weed Control Board - invasive plants DEP Guidelines to Protecting Animal Habitat in Wetlands

Animals - General information about some of Bedford's native animals and a place to log and view sitings. TOP

Bat Beaver Coyote Chipmunk White-Tailed Deer Field Mouse Red Fox Fisher Groundhog

Hare Opossum River Otter Eastern Cottontail Rabbit Racoon Skunk Gray Squirrel Snakes Vole

Birds - General information about some common birds found in Bedford. TOP

American Kestrel Baltimore Oriole Barred Owl Bluebird Blue Jay Cardinal Cat Bird Chickadee

Great Horned Owl Hummingbird Mourning Dove Red-Tailed Hawk Red-Winged Blackbird Robin Wild Turkey Woodpecker

Insects - General information about some of Bedford's native insects. TOP

Ant Black Swallowtail Butterfly Bumble Bee Cabbage White Butterfly Daddy Long-Legs Dragonfly Eastern Tiger Swallowtail Butterfly Firefly Grasshopper

Japanese Beetle Lady Bug Monarch Butterfly Mosquito Potato Beetle Praying Mantis Yellow Jacket Worm

Plants - General information about some of Bedford's native plants. TOP

Bluet Chicory Cinnamon Fern Common Buttercup Goldenrod Goldthread Indian Pipes Jack-in-the-Pulpit Milkweed

Jewel Weed Lady Slipper Oxeye Daisy Partridge Berry Plantain Poison Ivy Queen Anne's Lace Skunk Cabbage Winterberry